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Default American vs British cooking vocabulary



"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:57:38 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>> Something that really used to confuse me here is your use of the term
>> 'roast' To me a roast is something to be roasted, but I've been here
>> already

>
> Are you talking about when we braise a pot roast? It's a figure of
> speech, like your "pudding", which is something I will never
> understand.


No, no, it is when you use the term 'roast' for a piece of meat you have no
intention of roasting I used to get terribly confused when someone spoke
about a roast, then cooked it in a crock pot <g>



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